CLP-4134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nosology, Chronic Poverty, Protective Factor
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Studies are limited due to methodological constraints. Example: shock conditioning in young children= not good. Some studies use unpleasant images or noise to study fear learning. Children as young as 3 yrs old show evidence with fear learning. Nosology: effort to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive categories. Our current nosology, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Dsm-5 attempts to find common denominators that describe manifestations of (dsm- 5) disorders at any age. The sequence and timing of particular behaviors as well as the relations between bahviors over time: Pathways leading to particular disorders are numerous and interactive. Similar outcomes stem from different early experiences and developmental. Similar early experiences lead to different outcomes. Risk factor: a variable that comes before a negative outcome of interest. Ex. chronic poverty, parental mental illness, learning disability, poor parenting, poverty, heredity influence, genes, divorce, etc. Protective factor: a personal or situational variable that mitigates a child developing a disorder.
